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POTATOES

... POTATOES. There were fair supplies, and trade was steady for the better description. The following; were the quotations Kent regents. 110s. to ISfta Essex dttto, 901. to llOi. rocks, COf. to 801 flukss, itoo. to 170a.; Victorias, lSOs. to 100.. klduevs ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1876
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POTATOES

... POTATOES. With moderate arrivals trade remained tteady for all descriptions. Kent regants, 110s. to 14%. E sex and other regente, 100s. to 180s. 6haws, 100s. to ilos. Victorias 120s. to HOi. and kidneys, 120.. to 135a. per ten. ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1876
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 38 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POTATOES

... POTATOES There have been moderate arrivals, and, without activity, the trade has been steady. New Jersey kidneys, 160s. te iqu., ditto round, ltOs. to 160a guernsey kidneys, 160s. te 200s.; ditto round, ISO*, to 160s. per ton Buteh potatoes. *»• to 2s ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1878
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POTATOES

... POTATOES. BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS, Dec. 3.—Large supplies of potatoes have arrived up to these markets since Monday last, coastwise and by railway, but their quality has proved in- ferior. The imports have been trifling—namely, 5 barrels from Hamburg ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POTATOES

... POTATOES. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS, Dec. 17.-Since Monday last the arrivals of potatoes, coastwise and by railway, have been very liberal, and 2,500 tons have arrived from Scotland. The imports from the continent have amounted to about 100 tons. Although ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

POTATOES

... POTATOES. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS, Dec. 10.—As the arrivals of potatoes have been extensive since Monday last, the demand is heavy and prices are rather drooping. York Regents, 95s. to 110s. Scotch, 75s. to 95s.; cups, 75s. to 80s.; Kent and Essex, 75s ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1855
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Potato Disease

... Potato Disease. Though so greatly favoured with solar heat this season, the earth seems to be pregnant with ills that most directly effect our food resources. All corn crops are thin in quantity; much of the ripe grain has been spoiled by wet, and much ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1865
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 521 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE POTATO BLIGHT

... THE POTATO BLIGHT. The severityof the weather during the entire of the month nearly closed has everywhere greatly retarded the planting of the potato crop this season, but in the northern districts matters are mending:, and considerable progress has been ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1860
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

POTATO DISEASE

... obedient servant, Medical-hall, 168, Piccadilly. HENKY REECE. Dear Sir,—I examined the potatoes submitted by you to chlorine, and then kept in a warm dry place. The potatoes were from my farm at Willisdon, where thefcrop was first taken up. More than one third ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1845
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE POTATOE DISEASE

... THE POTATOE DISEASE. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—The general interest felt in anything relating to the potatoe disease will be ample apology for my transcribing, for the information of your leadeis, some extracts from a letter, by ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1847
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1237 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The Potato Disease

... affinity for the potato, it runs down the haulm, and seizing upon the starch in the young- potato, converts the starch into saccharine matter by the addition of oxygen; the rain and heat converts the earth into a kind of oven; the potato begins to ferment ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1864
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 5 | Tags: News